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TAPAC: Theatre and Performance Across Cultures

A nonprofit publisher and digital humanities initiative supporting cross-cultural exchange in theatre and performance through translation, publishing, and multimedia resources.

Last updated September 29, 2026

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Overview

TAPAC: Theatre and Performance Across Cultures is a nonprofit organization based in London, UK and Wrocław, Poland. Its core mission is to support cross-cultural exchange in theatre and performance through a range of translation, publishing, and digital humanities initiatives. TAPAC focuses on opening channels for dialogue and sharing perspectives across cultural and linguistic borders. Together with key partners such as the Grotowski Institute, it publishes scholarly and source materials from different traditions in both print and digital formats. The organization also works with artists, scholars, and documentarists to create mixed-mode accounts of training and performance processes, producing resources that incorporate photo and audiovisual essays, interviews, rehearsal notes, designs and sketches, professional profiles, and remastered video records. In the area of translation, TAPAC's members and collaborators work to make available a wide variety of published and archival content in translation, spanning multiple languages and more than 20 countries. In keeping with its mission, TAPAC aims to create and produce publications for a broad, international audience. Full-text content from a growing range of titles can be accessed free on the community platform TAPAC and Culture Hub, built in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute in Poland. TAPAC is a small, mission-driven publisher and platform operator in the performing arts sector, with a focus on open access and cross-cultural dialogue.

History

TAPAC: Theatre and Performance Across Cultures is a nonprofit organization working from London, UK and Wrocław, Poland. Its core mission is to support cross-cultural exchange in theatre and performance through a range of translation, publishing, and digital humanities initiatives. The organization focuses on opening channels for dialogue and sharing perspectives across cultural and linguistic borders. Together with key partners such as the Grotowski Institute, TAPAC publishes a variety of scholarly and source materials from different traditions, in both print and digital formats. TAPAC also works with artists, scholars, and documentarists to create mixed-mode accounts of training and performance processes. It produces resources incorporating photo and audiovisual essays, interviews, rehearsal notes, designs and sketches, professional profiles, and remastered video records. In translation, TAPAC's members and collaborators work to make available a wide variety of published and archival content in translation, spanning multiple languages and more than 20 countries. In keeping with its mission, TAPAC aims to create and produce publications for a broad, international audience. Full-text content from a growing range of titles can be accessed free on the new community platform TAPAC and Culture Hub built in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute in Poland. One of its publishing series is Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP).

Products and positioning

Nonprofit, open-access publisher and digital humanities platform for cross-cultural theatre and performance research.

  • TAPAC and Culture Hub

    A community platform built in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute in Poland, providing free full-text access to a growing range of titles.

  • Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

    A publishing series by TAPAC.

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